Move your projects between Adobe and the Craft apps.
Free converters in both directions. Bring After Effects and Premiere Pro projects into EffectCraft and FilmCraft, or take your Craft work back to After Effects, with a report of everything that carried over.
- Free
- No sign-up
- Your media never leaves your computer
From Adobe to the Craft apps
How it works
Rebuilt by the app itself, and nothing goes missing quietly.
.aepyour project
Only the project travels
You send the project file (.aep, .prproj, .ecproj). Footage, images and audio never leave your computer.
EffectCraft engine
The Craft app rebuilds it
Our server runs the Craft app's own engine, so the file you download is one EffectCraft or FilmCraft wrote. Going back to Adobe, you get a script that After Effects runs itself.
Every layer and clip accounted for
Each one is marked as converted, converted with notes, or not converted, and says why.
Your file is deleted in the same request. No copies, no account.
From the guides
How to convert an After Effects project to EffectCraft
A step-by-step walkthrough: preparing an .aep, uploading it, reading the report, opening the .ecproj in EffectCraft, relinking footage and checking the result.
What carries over from After Effects to EffectCraft, and what doesn't
An honest list of what converts from an After Effects project to EffectCraft: layers, keyframes, effects, text, shapes, masks, 3D, expressions, and the gaps.
Relink Footage After Converting a Project: Paths Explained
Why media shows offline after converting an After Effects or Premiere project, how paths are remapped, and how to relink footage and image sequences.
Checklist Before Converting an After Effects or Premiere Project
A practical pre-flight checklist for converting After Effects, Premiere Pro and EffectCraft projects: versions, size limit, plug-ins, fonts, footage, report.
Questions
What are the Craft apps?
A family of free, open-source desktop apps by the ArtCraft team, each modelled on a professional tool: EffectCraft on After Effects, FilmCraft on Premiere Pro, PhotoCraft on Photoshop, VectorCraft on Illustrator, LightCraft on Lightroom, DesignCraft on InDesign, and more. They run on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Can I take an EffectCraft project back to After Effects?
Yes. The EffectCraft to After Effects converter gives you a script (.jsx). In After Effects, run it with File ▸ Scripts ▸ Run Script File and save: you get an ordinary .aep. The script is tested against EffectCraft's own After Effects-compatible scripting, not against Adobe's, and the report lists what After Effects can't build from a script.
Why can't the Craft apps open my Adobe projects?
Adobe's project formats are closed and undocumented, and the Craft apps were built without Adobe's code, so each one saves a format of its own. Something has to read the Adobe file and rebuild the project in the Craft app's terms: that's a converter.
Which files open in the Craft apps without converting?
Photoshop files (.psd, .psb) open directly in PhotoCraft, Figma files (.fig) in FigCraft on a best-effort basis, and PDFs in PdfCraft. The other way round, PhotoCraft saves PSD for Photoshop, DesignCraft exports IDML for InDesign, FilmCraft exports AAF for Premiere Pro, and VectorCraft exports PDF and SVG for Illustrator.
Is Craft Converter free?
Yes. Converting is free and needs no account. Ads pay for the server.
Are more converters coming?
Only where they're needed. For many pairs the Craft app already opens the file itself (Lightroom catalogs in LightCraft, InDesign files in DesignCraft, Illustrator files in VectorCraft), and the page for that pair says how. We build a converter when the app can't do it: today After Effects to EffectCraft, Premiere Pro to FilmCraft, and EffectCraft back to After Effects.
Is Craft Converter made by Adobe or ArtCraft?
No. Craft Converter is independent and isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Adobe or the ArtCraft team.